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Mainly bar takings in the beginning obviously a small entrance fee £10 ish and like I said start small and build up. Club can Ill afford to take many risks of which a stadium gig most of us to think is a no go.
12p profit a pint? – is it worth the effort?
Your casual pop in / out, 2 pints in an hour drinker will make you 24p
An 8 pint session drinker will tie a table up for say 4 hours and you’ll nearly make a full quid profit.
If someone nicks a couple of bog rolls then that wipes out that profit and leaves you in the excrement.
Stealing ornaments, accidental & deliberate damage / vandalism to seating, furnishings, fixtures etc and then either the ambience of the venue or your bank account is lowered.
To be fair to AWG, at least he came up with an idea. In principle it wasn’t a bad one, sounded like a potentially attractive event. But as you point out, money making opportunity might be quite low – unless the club charged a good-sized fee for the use of their land etc etc etc?
Nicolson out on a perminant deal is being mooted on SM and AB very coy about it in the interview
Started well but went right off the boil. We didn’t make that much of his powerful long throw, and his general passing became weirdly dreadful. Limited opportunities in the last couple of months with seemingly zero impact on the team as a whole… so it makes sense to thank him for his service and see him on his way?
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Kouogun didn’t really cover himself in glory, either.
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Like Torps was saying, no point in really high balls to Beck that he’s struggling to get a head on, particularly if no ones really around him to latch on to flick ons. That’s how looked to me too. Curzon are a pain with that time wasting but don’t blame them. Roberts should have had a free kick edge of the area second half. Just shoved heavily off the ball.
Agree with this. We’re not getting the best out of Beck at all. He seems to me to be one of those target men who should have a nippy little bugger playing six feet away from him snapping up the bits Beck can feed. We should also be set up to build towards whipping crosses in when he’s up front and in the box, rather than continuing to fanny about.
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“Outside the box thinking”
Gated Bike nights or weekends both bars open, restaurant, camping on training pitch couple of Rock tribute bands, trade stands, food outlets, bike jumble. All without using the stadium at all.
Same with the Scooter’s sub Mod bands instead
Caravan club weekend (and before you laugh they had one at Brumby hall which was well attended).
Start small and build up.Not disagreeing, just wondering how you think the club would make serious money from this?
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Deserved to win that. Played some good football. Just didn’t quite fall right with Curzon defending well and deep. Good performance nonetheless.
1-1 was a fair reflection of the game. The lateness of the equaliser could make it seem like we snatched something we perhaps didn’t deserve, but that’s not really the case.
More than a draw? I don’t think so. Good chances went begging at both ends, so…
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All good points. So you should now see the futility of the trust buying shares other than their giving money to the club.
No.
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In the recent interview on Iron Hour, Ian Sharp admitted they have made mistakes and will probably make more. I really hope this idea for a 3 day music festival at which they hope to attract a whopping 10k people a day, isn’t one of them. Can’t see that any of the board have experience of organising music events like this and it might explain the pie in the sky target. I hope they give their heads a wobble and think it through properly, and don’t rope in someone who promises the earth but ends up burning them, and ultimately the club
It would be a massive financial risk for the club to undertake, as well as a logistical nightmare. They definitely do not have the expertise required. Just the talk of ‘tribute bands and local acts’ tells you that.
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I haven’t got time to get through the whole of Renée’s novel but one thing it highlights is that Swann did absolutely nothing to grow crowds, even with all the money spent on players. A pretty damning indictment.
It’s worth reading as he raises some sensible points worth thinking about.
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Which leads me on to the planned 3 day music extravaganza. So they are hoping to attract 10,000 per day to watch unknown local amateur bands and tribute bands.
So they are hoping 30,000 of the 81,000 of Scunthorpe will pay good money for this. Jesus… ain’t going to happen.Various parts of your post make a lot of sense, and I agree with much of what you said. Particularly in regard to the 3-day music festival.
Staging a load of tribute bands and local acts will never ever attract 10,000 people for each day. In fact, it’d be lucky to get 500 – 1,000. It represents a massive financial risk.
An outside organisation could hire the stadium and grounds for a fee and put something on with an outstanding bill, and you could probably then expect people to travel from out of town / across the region to attend. I imagine that to be the way this actually goes, rather than the club doing anything more than providing a venue.
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No i dont Deerey, don’t see any need to give any money to the club it’s a business not a charity,
You’re absolutely right that it’s not a charity, but you’re very wrong about it being a business. It’s run as one, because it has to be, but it’s so much more than that. It’s our football club, an emotional investment, a time investment, a hub of friendship and family; it’s continuity with personal past and connection to the future. If the last 18 months have taught supporters anything it should be that they’re more than mere customers, and the club is more than occasional entertainment that can be switched off like a TV. That’s lazy thinking.
I agree, kids parties and blah blah Unity blah will pay possible dividends in the future with people becoming lifelong fans etc – but if they’re already knocking round enough to go to a party or whatever, then they probably would anyway. Investing shares is a tangible way to support the club in the immediate sense, and to put further power into the hands of supporters – who are, as I just said, more than mere customers.
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